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- 151 A Beauty's Schemes in Shengjing 盛京美人谋 A Beauty's Schemes in Shengjing 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Phoenix Cries Across the Heavens: A Reborn Daughter's Revenge 凤唳九天：嫡女重生复仇记 The Phoenix Cries Across the Nine Heavens: The Reborn Legitimate Daughter's Revenge 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Reborn to Rewrite the Script: A Deadly Revenge 重生改剧本：致命复仇 Reborn and Rewriting the Script: A Deadly Revenge 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Revenge on a Variety Show: Ex-Wife, the Game Has Only Just Begun 综艺复仇：前妻，游戏才刚刚开始 Revenge on a Variety Show: Ex-Wife, the Game Has Only Just Begun 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Live Appraisal: Buddy, You’re in for It Now 直播鉴宝：宝友你可真刑啊 [Livestreaming + Antiques Appraisal + System] Qin bricks and Han tiles, Warring States jade, Tang sabers and Song paintings, Yuan blue-and-white porcelain, and Ming and Qing imperial tombs lined up in a row! Vast and glorious Xia has a history of five thousand years, as immense as the sea and enduring through the ages. The six-hundred-year-old Forbidden City is brimming with treasures! One day, master appraiser Ye Ling transmigrated and activated the livestream antiques appraisal System, setting 6.1kReads9.1Score48314d adds
- 156 I'm Already the Zombie King, and the Zombie Apocalypse Has Only Just Begun 我都成僵尸王了，丧尸末日才爆发 Zhang Xuan was reborn before the zombie outbreak. He obtained the corpse-refining art passed down by his ancestors and refined himself into a Heaven-Cutting Ancestral Zombie, surpassing the Four Great Ancestral Zombies! The zombie apocalypse began, and Zhang Xuan, now a ferocious zombie, emerged from his lair! “So you’re a zombie, huh? You think you can take on a jiangshi?” “You had your chance, and you still couldn’t do a thing! Are you trying to tickle me?” And the beauty who spent a night wit 10.8kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 157 Bloodied Qingyue: Reborn from the Ashes 浴血清月：涅槃归来 Bloodied Qingyue: Reborn from the Ashes 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Abandoned Daughter Returns: Her Child's Father Is a True Dragon! 弃女归来：崽崽他爹是真龙！ The Discarded Daughter Returns: Her Child's Father Is a True Dragon! 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 A Grand Wedding, A Shocking Plot 盛嫁惊谋 A Grand Wedding Plot 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Palace Maid's Rise: Every Step a Trap, Every Step a Plan! 宫女上位记：步步惊心步步为营！ The Palace Maid's Rise: Every Step a Shock, Every Step a Carefully Laid Plan! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Livestreaming Forest Patrol: A South China Tiger Family Won't Leave Me Alone 直播护林：华南虎一家赖上我 [Livestreaming + laid-back + farming + daily life + doting dad + no female lead] [Ding! A Level One endangered species detected: South China tiger!!] Cheng Ye returned to his hometown to work as a forest ranger and livestream. He never imagined he’d have a System installed, let alone that “From the start, I’m saving an extinct South China tiger?” “Oh? And it has cubs?” From then on Every morning when he opened his eyes, two little “kings of beasts” would be bouncing around on him, having the tim 3kReads9.1Score24814d adds
- 162 A Billion Deaths Later, I've Driven China's 749 Bureau Insane 死亡亿万次，我逼疯华夏749局 [Power-Fantasy Takeoff]+ [749 Bureau]+ [Superpowers]+ [Ancient Martial Arts and Qigong]+ [Epic Worldbuilding]+ [A Little Comedy] Chu Sheng, a high school senior, suddenly binds himself to a System. The first thing the System bro says is: [Host, hurry up and die!] Chu Sheng: “? Your mom...” [If you die, I’ll get you back on your feet. You’ll get stronger when you come back to life!] “...May your mom enjoy good health.” Chu Sheng immediately tries his luck at getting hit by a car. He gets scat 5.6kReads8.5Score68514d adds
- 163 The Fourth Prison 第四监牢 “Since ancient times, we humans have kept trying to follow in the footsteps of the gods. For this... we spent nearly ten thousand years.” “Until that day...” “We finally found a way to communicate with the gods. We pushed open that heavy door, walked down a path full of thorns, and arrived in the homeland of the gods...” “Only to find that everything before our eyes...” “Was covered in bones...” 15.2kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 164 My Slacker Niece and Her Five Unlucky Uncles 摆烂外甥女和她的五个大冤种舅舅 After staying up all night reading a novel only to find it ended terribly, she angrily chewed out the author in the middle of the night, then suddenly died the next day and transmigrated into the novel's world. A critical hit right from the start: afraid she'd starve, she went fishing, but instead of catching a fish, she pulled up a corpse. She reunited with her birth family, only to be poisoned by her own grandfather and sent to the hospital. She joined her second uncle on a farming-and-travel 6.9kReads8.8Score67714d adds
- 165 Fiction Becomes Reality: Is Your Junkie Act Really That Convincing? Investigate Him 戏假成真：演瘾君子这么像？查他 Chen Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an unknown extra. After finally signing up for the hit variety show What Is an Actor?, he runs into a well-connected internet celebrity in the very first round of auditions. The fix is in, and he gets the worst script. He has to play a drug addict. At the critical moment, the “Make-Believe Becomes Reality” System successfully binds to him. [Ding! Target role: drug addict. Congratulations, Host, you are now a real drug addict.] What the hell 102.1kReads8.4Score12k14d adds
- 166 Variety Show: I'm a Star, So Why Did You Give Me a Spooky Skill? 综艺：我明星，你给我阴间技能？ Lin Chen, who has transmigrated into this world as a fresh-faced young man, joins a reality show called Career Challenge. But no one expects him to send the entire production off the rails. “We asked you to deliver food, so why are you playing five games at once for customers at an internet cafe, with a 10–0 score after ten minutes?” “We asked you to act like a beggar, so why are you smashing stones on your chest in the street, pounding your head with bricks like your life depends on it?” “We as 18.5kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds
- 167 A Max-Level Metaphysics Expert's Daily Fortune-Telling Livestream 满级玄学大佬的直播算命日常 [No female lead + livestreaming + metaphysics expert + feng shui secrets + ghost hunting + immortal cultivation] After failing to ascend, the head of the Divination Sect transmigrates into the body of a small owner of a paper effigy shop. To cultivate the Great Dao anew and ascend once more, this top-tier metaphysics expert begins livestreaming his daily fortune-telling sessions. Reading faces, telling fortunes, locating dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, reading feng shui: this half-immo 28.8kReads9.0Score2.5k14d adds
- 168 I Just Married a Young Educated Woman, and Now I Have to Rise from Infancy? 刚娶女知青，让我从婴儿开始逆袭？ [Period setting + educated youth + hunting and farming + rural life + pocket dimension + wish fulfillment] After transmigrating to 1972, Li Yunfeng has just married an educated young woman when he awakens the Baby Comeback System. The System’s missions are rather ridiculous: walk one meter in a minute, and get a solid-gold longevity lock as a reward. Li Yunfeng: “What? One meter in a minute? Even someone with a blood clot in their brain could walk ten meters!” He then sprints half a kilometer. S 880Reads8.5Score14014d adds
- 169 One-Person Documentary: From the Start, Rescuing a Giant Panda Cub 一人纪录片：开局救助大熊猫幼崽 [Illustrated throughout] Chu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world where the ecological environment has deteriorated, and awakens the Mysterious Places Exploration System. From the start, he heads to the mysterious Shennongjia, the backbone of Central China, to film a documentary, only to have an adorable panda cub latch onto him! After successfully rescuing an injured little panda, he embarks on an extraordinary journey of natural exploration known to few. Unknown Realms, Legends of the Far Nort 15.4kReads9.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 170 I'm a Fortune-Telling Streamer, and the Whole Internet Is Fighting for a Spot 我算命主播，一个名额让全网疯抢 Wang Yue transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits a fortune-telling shop on the verge of closing down. His 300-jin landlady is also eyeing him hungrily. Luckily, the System may be late, but it finally arrives, activating the Divine Fortune-Telling System at a crucial moment. From then on, he makes a point of telling fortunes in unconventional ways. Other people read palms, but he tells fortunes by looking at photos. Wang Yue: “You there, kindred spirit. I see a terrible omen hanging over y 22.8kReads8.7Score2k14d adds
- 171 When in Doubt, Blow Yourself Up! Who Could Be More Carefree Than Me? 遇事不决就自爆！谁能比我更逍遥 [Demonic cultivation + ruthless decisiveness + loves a good time + flexible moral compass] What would you do if you were immortal from the start and immune to all restrictions? Jun Lin: “I don’t eat beef!” What’s the big deal? I’m immortal, so why shouldn’t I act a little arrogant? What? You stole my stuff? I’ll blow you up! What? You look down on me? I’ll blow you up! What? You want to kill me? I’m still going to blow you up! I transmigrated here to be the emperor. If you make the emperor suffe 25.1kReads8.7Score2.7k14d adds
- 172 Livestream: A Giant Panda, a National Treasure, Starts Following Me 直播：开局被国宝大熊猫跟踪 [System + livestreaming + animals] Outdoor streamer Jiang Feng gets a check-in and sign-in System while livestreaming from his hometown in the Taibai Mountains. On the way back, a giant panda cub follows him and ends up moving into Jiang Feng's home, refusing to leave. Jiang Feng: “Go on, get out of here! I can't afford to keep you anymore!” The giant panda lifts its little head: “Squeak, squeak! I want to get a job and earn money to support my family!” Viewers: “Nooo, giant panda! I'll collect 4kReads9.4Score36714d adds
- 173 Delivery Rider, Where’s My Takeout? It’s in Prison. Please 骑手我外卖在哪？外卖在牢里，请 [Short drama adaptation released] [Livestream antics] [Lighthearted comedy] [So funny I’m laughing my ass off] Jiang Chen transmigrated to a parallel world and joined a reality show. By random draw, he got a job as a food delivery rider. Carrying two boxes of [everyday umbrellas], Jiang Chen knocked on a customer’s door. Female customer: “You’re late! Because you’re late, my place reeks of flowers!” Jiang Chen gave it a careful sniff. “Nice!” Female customer: “No discussion. I’m filing a complai 10.9kReads8.8Score1k14d adds
- 174 EN Why Provoke Him? Even the Weakest in His Sect Is a Great Emperor 你惹他干嘛？他宗门最弱都是大帝 (Invincible protagonist + taking disciples + sect upgrades + ruthless and decisive + expansive worldbuilding + ensemble cast + gradual build-up + the pacing is a little slow for the first 200,000 words, then becomes explosively fast) “You have to pay to cultivate immortality?” “You even have to grease palms to get a spot?” “And pay the sect thirty taels of silver every month?” “You have to serve as a menial for half a year before you can even get a chance to study immortal arts?” “You came first 135.9kReads8.5Score10k14d adds
- 175 I Run a Funeral Home, I Really Can't Teach You to Slay Demons 我开的是殡仪馆，真不会教斩妖啊 [System + urban martial arts + no heroine + decisive and ruthless + ensemble cast + slight delusion] Lu Changsheng transmigrates and becomes the master of the Changsheng Hall, where he is bound to a Disciple Training System. As long as he trains his disciples well, he can share their cultivation progress remotely. System coins can also be used to draw various [skills] and equip them on his disciples. Everything should have been perfect. Unfortunately... [Changsheng Funeral Services] Staring at t 10.6kReads8.7Score90614d adds
- 176 Demons Run Amok, and I’m Reborn as a Sacred Mountain 妖魔乱世，我重生成了一座神山 [Behind-the-scenes protagonist + Management + Ensemble cast + Decisive and ruthless + Character growth] After transmigrating to a fantasy world ravaged by demons, Li Yue is reborn as a mountain. A group of refugees live at its foot. When demons attack, he steps in and saves them. They then revere him as a mountain god and begin worshipping him. The refugees offer him the prey they catch, praying for the mountain god's protection. Li Yue returns their kindness by blessing them and helping them gr 10.6kReads8.6Score69014d adds
- 177 From the Start, I Have Three Months to Live, So I Bet Everything on Solving Cases 开局三个月寿命，我全梭哈破案了 [No female lead + crime-solving + suspense + minimal romance] [New book: "Reborn in 1992: Starting with a Cold Case"] I transmigrated into a police officer! I was happy for less than a second before the System informed me I had only three months left to live. Huh? How is that supposed to work? Solve cases to earn more life? I'm going all in! And so the criminals across the whole city went crazy. [Officer, I was just delivering food. The lady of the house had too many mosquitoes, so I helped her 5.7kReads9.2Score70714d adds
- 178 Old Haunts 陈年诡事 There is only one disease in the world, and it's called poverty. There is only one kind of ghost in the world, and it's called a poor ghost. My name is Chen Xiaofei. I'm a high school sophomore who's both afflicted with the disease of poverty and a poor ghost. 31.9kReads8.5Score2.7k14d adds
- 179 Who Says a Country Girl Can't Make It? 谁说村姑不行 Who Says a Country Girl Can’t Make It? 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Yunjin's Revenge 云锦复仇 Yunjin's Revenge 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Xun of a Bygone Life 前世洵 Xun in a Past Life —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Plague Strikes the City 瘟疫惊城 Plague Panic in the City —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Shocking Secrets: The Price of Revenge 惊天秘密：复仇的筹码 A Shocking Secret: The Price of Revenge 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Bloodshed in the Inner Palace 深宫喋血 Bloodshed in the Palace —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Schemes of the Harem Beauties: A Perilous Step-by-Step Game 后宫美人谋：步步惊心 Schemes of the Harem Beauties: A Step-by-Step Ordeal 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 999 God-Tier Identities: A Spectacular Beatdown of the Protagonist 999种神级身份，花式吊打主角 [Villain + invincible + comedy + messing with the protagonist + trope subversion + lighthearted wish fulfillment] Chu Feng transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes the senior disciple of Qingyun Sword Sect. He seems to have the perfect start, but before he can even pop the champagne, he discovers that he’s destined to be the ultimate villain. His predecessor was so helpful that he already made a mortal enemy of a Chosen Protagonist! Worst of all, that Chosen Protagonist has already grown p 7.4kReads8.6Score66914d adds
- 187 The Magistrate of Qinghe County's Achilles' Heel 清河县令的逆鳞 The Magistrate of Qinghe County's Achilles' Heel 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Heiress Everyone Laughs At 笑柄千金 The Heiress Everyone Laughs At 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Roaring Across the Land 怒吼山河 A Roar Across the Land 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 The Comeback Wife: No More Doormat, I'm the Queen 逆袭媳妇：不做包子，做女王 The Wife's Comeback: No Longer a Doormat, Now a Queen 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 The Red Wedding Veil of Court Intrigue 权谋红盖 The Red Veil of Court Intrigue 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Graduation Ceremony Lie 毕业典礼的谎言 The Lie at Graduation 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Your Mystery Novels Make You Better at Solving Cases Than the Police? 你写悬疑小说比警察还会查案？ (No System, no female lead, not invincible, mostly everyday life, Conan-like bad luck, cases both big and small.) (Warning: The protagonist does everything for himself and is no conventional good guy. Don’t read if that bothers you. Also, no female lead doesn’t mean no female characters; it just means there are no romantic scenes. Don’t read if you don’t want women to appear.) Other people transmigrate and find opportunities and connections waiting for them. When Lu Ci transmigrates, the only th 7kReads8.9Score84614d adds
- 194 Silent Evidence: Who Is Pulling the Strings of Lies? 沉默证据：谁在操控谎言 Silent Evidence: Who Is Pulling the Strings of Lies? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 I Travel Between Two Strange Worlds, But I'm a Ghost Cultivator! 双穿诡异世界，可我是鬼修啊！ Jiang Zhao transmigrated into a cultivation world and accidentally joined a sect of ghost cultivators. Everyone in the sect was wicked. Jiang Zhao spent every day treading carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Fortunately, at a critical moment, he awakened his golden finger. He obtained a portal that let him travel between worlds, linking his own to one where the paranormal was running rampant. That world was crawling with supernatural entities. Refine one D-rank entity, and your cultivation bre 18.9kReads8.3Score2k14d adds
- 196 The 108th Viewer in the Haunted House Livestream 凶宅直播间的第108位观众 The 108th Viewer in the Haunted House Livestream 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 From the Start, I Had Financial Freedom, But I Just Wanted an Ordinary Life 开局财富自由，我只想当个普通人 Ordinary people are always dreaming of financial freedom, beautiful women, luxury cars, yachts... But compared with material things, Chu Fang wants something more: a sincere love to accompany him through the rest of his life, as he peacefully admires the mountains. [Everyday life, one heroine] ... ... 38.7kReads7.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 198 Rebooting 1988 重启1988 Millionaire Qin Lang returns to 1988. Seeing his beautiful wife and adorable daughter struggling in poverty, Qin Lang, who lost his way chasing money in his previous life, decides to climb to the top once more, with family in one hand and career in the other, and shape this wild, fast-growing era! 1.4kReads9.1Score24414d adds
- 199 Just Leave Bad Reviews. Why Bother Playing Games? 给给差评就行了，还玩啥游戏啊！ [Game development + original games + lighthearted comedy + subverting expectations] [Short drama now available] Lu Ming transmigrated to a parallel world and took over a bankrupt game studio. By chance, he bound himself to the [Moral Debt System]. Every time he did something “immoral but legal,” he earned rewards based on its impact. So, to get players cursing and turn that into profit, Lu Ming launched a series of outrageous schemes. With his left hand, he rolled out “Pay to breathe after loggi 11.9kReads8.8Score91514d adds
- 200 Restarting in 2007: From Top Student to Academic Authority 重启2007，从学霸到学阀 Have you ever won a scholarship? Have you ever been in an honors class? Have you ever ranked first in your entire school? How many certificates have you earned? How many competitions have you entered? Have you ever made the person you like see you in a new light? Why did you go quiet? But you’re still staring at your phone! Back in 2007, Lu Shixian starts making plans, working hard, changing his style, and moving forward. Lu Shixian: Sorry, but this time, I’m going to win. 19.7kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
